In this paper we introduce the concept of q coherent pair of linear functionals. We prove that if ðu 0 ; u 1 Þ is a q coherent pair of linear functionals, then at least one of them has to be a q classical linear functional. Moreover, we present the classification of all q coherent pairs of positive definite linear functionals when u 0 or u 1 is either the little q Jacobi linear functional or the little q Laguerre/Wall linear functional. Finally, by using limit processes, we recover the classification of coherent pairs of linear functionals stated by Meijer. Ó